Leafs Blow By Islanders

The Toronto Maple Leafs had some fun at the expense of former teammate Felix Potvin.

Jonas Hoglund had two goals and an assist as the Maple Leafs beat the New York Islanders 5-1 on Wednesday night.

"They're one of the best teams in the league and you can't give them extra chances like that," said Potvin, whose team is 0-7-1 in its last eight games.

Potvin gave up all five goals and finished with 22 saves in his second start against his former team since being traded to the Islanders last season.

Tie Domi, Steve Thomas and Bryan Berard also scored for Toronto, which improved its home record to an NHL-best 15-4-2-0 and pulled three points ahead of second-place Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference.

Glenn Healy, making his seventh start of the season in place of Curtis Joseph, made 23 saves. Healy allowed only Claude Lapointe's goal with 4:32 left.

"We didn't play a great game, but Healy made the saves when he needed to," said Hoglund, who leads the Leafs with 17 goals.

Hoglund scored his first goal 4:05 into the game off a rebound when he was left alone in front of the net.

Domi made t 2-0 midway through the second when he took a pass from Nik Antropov and fired a shot from the slot past Potvin.

Thomas scored the first of Toronto's two power-play goals when he stripped Zdeno Chara of the puck deep in New York's end and put a nice fake on Potvin. The Leafs continued the onslaught when Hoglund converted a perfect pass from Mats Sundin.

"We had a lot of turnovers and we gave up the puck a lot. We left (Potvin) hanging by himself in the net," said Islanders captain Kenny Jonsson, another former Toronto player. "That kind of thing happens with a young team."

Mariusz Czerkawski, New York's leading scorer, left the game because of a strained oblique muscle.

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